Pushes & Pulls

Why Do People Migrate?

This intriguing book explores the reasons why people migrate: pushes-involuntary migrations and pulls-voluntary migrations. The different causes include: population density or lack of resources; colonization and empire building; independence from colonization, population transfer, and ethnic cleansing; the slave trade and human trafficking; war or natural disasters; religious, racial, or cultural prejudice and persecution; and to find work.